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Lots of lovely new releases and reissues on the show this week. We have a couple of tracks from a terrific new compilation on Because Records of classic French electronic music from the 70s called Cosmic Machine. There's a track from the latest album by a band new to us here at the Moonbase, Fitness Forever and a couple of tracks sent in by two of our highly talented listeners, Rob Britton and Parlous. We have a track from the latest release by Giant Claw as well as a track from one of three(!) new releases on his label, Orange Milk. This week's show has an alternate theme tune too, kindly composed especially for us by Jez Butler, whose Lighter Side of Concrete we think very highly of.

This week on the show we thought we would celebrate the 50th anniversary of the arrival on television of the Doctor. Dr Hardy, that is, and the rest of the cast of General Hospital, the longest running series on TV, which first took to the airwaves in April 1963. Our celebration takes the form of a series of extremely urgent sounding theme tunes to various medical dramas and a selection of other tunes which hopefully won't have you being rushed to A&E.

This week's show is made up of some the latest releases and reissues to arrive here at the Moonbase. We have two selections from the long-awaited third collection of library music put together by Luke Vibert, an example of the music used as part of the training regime by East German athletes in the 70s (allegedly), two tracks submitted by our highly talented listeners and plenty more besides.

It's time to put on your safety gogggles, make sure every member of the family is wearing a hi-vis jacket and is standing behind the striped tape cordon as we invite you to carefully come with us on a journey into public safety.

The reason our Halloween special this year may appear to be somewhat late to the party is down to a little known fact which is that Halloween is traditionally celebrated on the Moon every 3 November. It is certainly not because of an almost comedic sequence of malfunctions, errors and mishaps which have assailed the Moonbase in the last couple of weeks. So, if you, like us, dear listener have saved your Halloween celebrations until tonight, we present the perfect soundtrack to your phantasmagorical parties and fiendish festivities.

It's time to get a set of D6s ready to navigate your way through a show made up of some of our favourite new releases and reissues. The show takes its title from a splendid new release by friend of the show, Monroeville Music Center and we also have a selection from another close friend of the show, namely Spacedog, in the form of the tenth and final edition in Ghost Box's Study Series for which they have collaborated with Belbury Poly. Hailu Mergia's "classical instrument" makes a welcome return, this time in the hands of Norwegian space disco specialist Prins Thomas. There's an amazingly mellow track from one of several new albums which Jimi Tenor appears to have snuck out this year and we even manage to include a version of Caravan...

Following the recent discovery of a potential imposter at the Moonbase - coupled with our continued enthusiasm for, mainly German, musicians masquerading as, largely Latin American, band leaders - we though the time was ripe for a show exploring authenticity...

Forming a natural accompaniment to last week's show about biscuits, we present this week, dear listener, a selection of some of our favourite cheeses. For maximum enjoyment, we recommend preparing for the show by opening a box of crackers and making sure a decanter full of port or sherry is close at hand.

With a nod in the direction of international spy agency Danger 5 who give us the title of this week's show, it's a long over-due moment to celebrate one of our favourite foodstuffs - and in fact one which largely keeps the Moonbase going - namely that of biscuits. Many forms of biscuit are covered in the show, including a couple of tentative steps into the savoury world of crackers.

There's been a positive deluge of delightful new releases and reissues building up in the air-lock here at PMB so we thought it time to play catch-up and present you with some of our favourites. So this week on the show you'll find exotic mind-expansion, lost German library music, a fake Frenchman, Belgian exotica, tradiitonal Colombian punk, Somalian funk and something indescribable from 1927.

It was recently pointed out to us that we'd not yet covered that most important of topics for musical cosmologists such as ourselves, namely our very own solar system! So come with us, dear listener as we take you from the innermost planet Mercury all the way out to distant Pluto (which, yes, we still hold to be a planet) playing a musical selection for each stop along the way.

In a rare example of temporal relevance for Project Moonbase, this week we bring you a show all about the return to halls of learning currently going on up and down the country. We have educational music to tickle your brain cells, music made by school bands and soundtrack music from children's TV shows. We even get to hear from a fake German new to us here at the Moonbase.

As our lunar hostage, Space Disco Jeff, recently reminded us, the last time he was on the moon we joked that it would be fun to do a show about the lighter side of death. We take these commitments very seriously, so, two years later (oops!), we finally get round to covering that topic. The show is book-ended with some suitably deathly chiptune but also covers outsider electronica, space disco (surprisingly enough), death metal and gothic tango. As well as that we even manage to shoe-horn in a track from the latest release by Tim Gane's new project, Cavern of Anti-Matter.

For this week's (and next week's) show we welcome/abduct very special guest Space Disco Jeff. For the first of these shows we review some new releases and reissues, many of which were brought up to the moon by Jeff and we're glad to say he still has his finger on the disco pulse. There are also tracks from two great new compilations: a double album of artists who have appeared at Joseph Stannard's Outer Church in Brighton and an album sent to us by fellow Brightonian and friend of the show, Sarah Angliss, which is the latest sumptuuosly packaged project from Moon Wiring Club.

Largely inspired by the re-discovery of the joyful work of The Conch Man we decided to fashion a whole show around the theme of sea shells. This gave us a chance to trawl up some library music, some Italian soundtrack music, a national treasure from the antipodes and a pre-Wombles Mike Batt.